Amazon interview notes, page 27 of 159

“I had a decent story ready but fumbled the 'continuous' part.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Amazon, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt like a frontend system design question disguised as a coding question and I kept trying to write code when they really wanted me to think out loud about the API surface first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The SQL part was fine, month truncation plus a GROUP BY and a conditional aggregate.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one sprawled in every direction.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Spent way too long second-guessing what 'median' means for even-length subsequences before just going with lower-middle index.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just iterate over the dict keys and do a find-replace for each one, which they immediately pushed back on.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The key insight I kept circling around was: a task can only be eliminated by one with strictly more bots, so any task that isn't strictly dominated by another has a shot.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the ingestion side and spent probably too long on the data pipeline before touching the recommendation layer.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to customer impact and kind of forgot to zoom out to society or unintended consequences.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Amazon, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew memoized backtracking was the move but fumbled the explanation for a minute.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Amazon, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.